Situation

A prominent global enterprise was searching for a headless, localization-ready CMS to manage multilingual web content. After struggling to find a viable solution, they realized they needed more than just a way to translate content—they needed a partner they could trust and a strategy that would scale. Acclaro delivered that and more, using Craft CMS and its translation integration to bolster an environment of best practices, collaboration and cost savings.

Challenge

The complexity of the requirements coupled with outdated technology created many hurdles that needed clearing:

Cumbersome data migration with multiple file types and resource formats to be synthesized into a single translation handoff

Tedious process to manually export, translate and import daily files

Lack of technology or process to track content status and updates from various contributors

Inability to customize workflows

Solutions

The Acclaro team initiated a series of collaborative strategy sessions, which helped the client feel confident and ready to tackle localization. From there, we guided the successful transition from proxy server to CMS, keeping all data intact and giving the client an intuitive, automated website localization solution. Our approach included: